Source of Light

By Reynolds Price

Book Overview

Here is the second volume of A Great Circle, the highly acclaimed Mayfield family trilogy, from one of America's literary treasures.
Though a novel independent from The Surface of Earth, The Source of Light continues the saga of the Mayfield family, here focusing on Hutchins Mayfield, whose desire for self-knowledge removes him from his secure existence as a prep school teacher and takes him on a journey to Oxford and Italy to study and write. Hutchins comes back home for a family crisis but ultimately returns to England, where he achieves a maturity that enables him to cope with commitments, abandonments, and the creation of an honest personal agenda.
In The Source of Light, Reynolds Price combines gravity and buoyancy, a mythic sense of the past with the mysteries of place, to forge an encompassing portrait of the strange and various world one travels through in the quest for self-fulfillment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684813386
• ISBN13: 9780684813387
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.1"